Saturday, 10 April 2010

Better Late than Never.....

But I find I'm not the only one who struggles to blog at all these days from those days not so long ago of blogging on a frequent basis if not a regular one. Reading several blogs as I still do, several people have mentioned an apathy for blogging since Ravelry grew. Micki of thing4string in March nicely summed it up when she said she wasn't going to 'feel guilty' about blogging regularly and I have to agree. Every time I read someones blog I think I should blog but just never seem to find the umpf to do so... Neither will I feel guilty that my 'knitting blog' is not just about knitting and at the moment it may severely become about crochet as that's all seem to have done for the last 6 months or want to do in the foreseeable future... at the end of the day as long as it involves fibre or yarn, needles, hooks or wheels or even looms (yes I got one of those too)... it doesn't matter we're all 'fibre artists' and there's room for us all....Anyway to catch up from were I left off last year with my last post of 5 down, 2 to go (in reference to the handspun, handknit shawls I was doing for decade birthdays)... Here are the remaining two shawls.....

On the 24th January 2010... my mum Cathleen was 80 so I spun some beautiful 'Chai' batts from Enchanted Knoll and knit my 6th Swallowtail for her (it's a classic design and will always remain so with me, I may even knit myself one at some point!)....

Sorry you will have to lie on your side to view this because I have to edit and re-upload I may never get this post posted!

Last but by no means least for 11th March 2010 our friend Enid was also 80 and again from Enchanted Knoll I spun 'Ursula' batts into heavy laceweight and knit another classic from Evelyn Clark 'Shetland Triangle' (a 2nd for me).

5 comments:

These were both worth waiting for. I keep promising myself to knit another Swallowtail, which, like you, I think is a classic. The most amazing thing about the shawl is that it looks fantastic in every yarn and color.

Seems like so many bloggers have slowed way down...me too. With big projects like the Queen Susan, there's not a lot to report from week to week. And many of my free hours are going to Japanese embroidery. My blog might reflect that change in a month or two.

lovely....thanks for sharing them. i appreciate the fact that some people still blog at least once in a while. to me, ravelry is for help and conversation, blogging is for telling a story..about your knitting, or whatever else you feel like telling. i wouldn't give up cake because there's ice cream either.